Walker Babington

Walker Babington

Artist, actor, and stunt performer Walker Babington began his film career as a stunt performer in an attempt to bring a new, dynamic level of spectacle to his performance art. However, after training with the United Stuntmen's Association in 2012, Walker fell in love with the artistry of the stunt craft itself, and soon found himself driving a getaway van in a Nike ad, fighting on Steven Spielberg's battlefield, and stunt-doubling the likes of Oscar-winner Sam Rockwell. After several years of fighting, falling, and taking bullets, he parlayed his stunt career into an acting one, playing a role (and of course, doing his own stunts) opposite Chris Pratt in Antoine Fuqua's 2016 remake of The Magnificent Seven. Over the subsequent decade, Walker simultaneously plowed forward with his art, acting, and stunt careers. Normally sporting his signature handlebar mustache, Babington often portrays ne'er-do-wells on the large and small screen who (thanks to his stunt abilities) frequently meet unsavory ends. He attempts to play these characters "as grounded and as despicable as possible," and loves the moment of justice when he gets to act out their undoing. His acting career has led to dramatic roles opposite the likes of Will Smith, Holly Hunter, and Giancarlo Esposito, while his stunt career has seen his characters dispatched by actors like Pierce Brosnan, Michael B. Jordan, and Taron Egerton. As an artist, Walker builds large-scale, dreamscape, folk-art sculptures, paints with sunlight and flamethrowers, and makes "creatively destructive" portraiture by exploiting the inherent deteriorative properties of his media. His work has been displayed in galleries, museums, and arts spaces across the US, in Central America, India, and the EU. His large-scale work has been featured in sculpture gardens as well as music & arts festivals such as Bonnaroo and Burning Man. Realizing his dream of blending his artwork and stunt work, Walker once set his entire body on fire in the streets of New Orleans, scorching a "Fire Angel" into a panel of reclaimed wood. He and his wife, director and screenwriter Shana Betz, live in New Orleans where Walker uses his unconventional woodworking skills to create fantastical Mardi Gras floats for their daughter.
Wallace Shawn

Wallace Shawn

American character actor and playwright Wallace Shawn has one of those fun, delightfully mischievously gnomish faces made for entertaining. Though he got out of the acting starting gate rather late, he quickly excelled film and TV while managing to turn himself into comedy egghead or loser types. Woody Allen's slightly threatened character in the movie Manhattan (1979) amusingly describes Wallace's benign gent as "a homunculus", which may be a pretty fair description of this predominantly bald, wan, pucker-mouthed, butterball-framed, slightly lisping gent. Shawn made his movie debut at age 36 in Allen's heralded classic in a brief but telling scene as Diane Keaton's ex-husband. The 5'2" Jewish actor was born Wallace Michael Shawn into privilege on November 12, 1943 in New York City, as the son of Cecille (Lyon) (1906-2005), a journalist, and William Shawn (1907-1992), renowned and long-time editor of The New Yorker. His brother, Allen Shawn, went on to become a composer. Wallace was educated at both Harvard University, where he studied history, and Magdalen College, Oxford. Wallace initially taught English in India on a Fulbright scholarship, and then English, Latin and drama back in New York. However, a keen interest in writing and acting soon compelled him to leave his cushy position and pursue a stage career as both playwright and actor. During his distinguished career, Wallace churned out several plays. "Our Late Night", the first of his works to be performed, was awarded an off-Broadway Obie in 1975. This was followed by "A Thought in Three Parts" (1976);, "The Mandrake" (1977) (which he translated from the original Italian and made his acting debut), "Marie and Bruce" (1979), "Aunt Dan and Lemon" (1985) and "The Fever," for which he received his second Obie for "Best New Play" during the 1990-91 season. A popular supporting player of comedy and the occasional drama, Shawn's assorted kooks, creeps, brainiacs and schmucks possessed both endearing and unappetizing qualities. He earned his best early notices partnered with theatre director/actor Andre Gregory in the unique Louis Malle-directed film My Dinner with Andre (1981). Shawn co-wrote the improvisatory, humanistic piece with brother Allan as the composer. Shawn and Gregory would collaborate again for Malle in another superb, original-concept film Vanya on 42nd Street (1994). Among Shawn's offbeat films have been Bruce Paltrow's A Little Sex (1982); James Ivory's The Bostonians (1984); Stephen Frears' Prick Up Your Ears (1987); Rob Reiner's The Princess Bride (1987); Alan Rudolph's The Moderns (1988) and Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994); and Paul Bartel's Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989). He also appeared in several other Woody Allen offerings including Radio Days (1987), Shadows and Fog (1991), The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001), Melinda and Melinda (2004) and the title role in Rifkin's Festival (2020). Since the 1990s, he has lent his vocal talents to a considerable number of animated pictures including A Goofy Movie (1995), Toy Story (1995) (and its sequels), The Jungle Book: Mowgli's Story (1998), The Incredibles (2004), Chicken Little (2005), Happily N'Ever After (2006), Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore (2010) and Animal Crackers (2017). TV voices have included The Pink Panther (1993), The Lionhearts (1998), Family Guy (1999), Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness (2011), The Stinky & Dirty Show (2015) and The Bug Diaries (2019). Millennium films graced with Shawn's participation include Southland Tales (2006), Kit Kittredge: An American Girl (2008), Jack and the Beanstalk (2009), The Speed of Thought (2011) and Vamps (2012). He co-starred as Halvard Solness and wrote the screen adaptation for Ibsen's classic play A Master Builder (2013) co-starring Julie Hagerty, and went on to appear in Don Peyote (2014), Maggie's Plan (2015), Robo-Dog (2015), Drawing Home (2016), Another Kind of Wedding (2017), Book Club (2018) and Marriage Story (2019). Over the decades, Shawn has scurried about effortlessly with a number of television guest appearances including "Taxi," "Homicide: Life on the Streets," "Ally McBeal," "Law & Order: Criminal Intent," "Sex and the City," "Desperate Housewives," "The Daily Show," "The 7D," "Life in Pieces," "The Good Fight," "Mr. Robot" and "Search Party. He has also drummed up a few recurring roles for himself in the process, including The Cosby Show (1984), Murphy Brown (1988), Clueless (1996) (based on the hit film Clueless (1995), revisiting his teacher role), Murphy Brown (1988), Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (1993), Crossing Jordan (2001), The L Word (2004), Gossip Girl (2007), The Good Wife (2009), Mozart in the Jungle (2014), and, more recently, as Dr. Sturgis in the comedy Young Sheldon (2017).

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